To:L. K. MARTENS

Written:Written on November 17, 1921Published:First published in 1959 in LeninMiscellany XXXVI.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeMartens

ComradeMartens:

Besure to inform Petrograd and the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Trade. Unless there is atriplecheck-up, not
a damn thing will be ready, and we shall be in a mess.

Raisethe question of preparatory measures in theC.L.D.and the Narrow
C.P.C.[1]

17/XI.Lenin

[1]Writtenon a report from L. K. Martens saying that the first
shipload of wheat for Russia, under an agreement with the Allied
Drug and Chemical Corporation, was to leave New York on
November 17, 1921.

Theagreement between the People’s Commissariat for Foreign
Trade and this corporation on the delivery to Soviet Russia of
one million poods of wheat was concluded in Moscow on
October 27, and approved by the C.L.D. on November 4, 1921 (see this
volume, Documents 439, 441, 451, 473, 474, 482 and alsoCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 53, Documents 428
and 511).

OnNovember 25, 1921, the C.L.D. instructed the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade and the People’s Commissariat
for Railways to submit a report on the measures necessary for
the “acceptance of grain without any delays” (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).